Rosas Pandan by ENCORE-Dawson High School Choir of Pearland, Texas

Encore's awesome rendition of a Visayan folk song during their Spring Concert last May 20,2010.
Congratulations to these high school kids and kudos to their choir director, Roxan Silva!

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• Angelene
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[TheRemz17]

sounds like real visayan,,, is this really authentic?

[rlngutchie68]

@TheRemz17 Yes! These kids are just awesome and are blessed to have a very talented choir director.

[rlngutchie68]

Dawson High School's uber talented choir director, Roxan Silva is a Filipina!

There were 3 filipino kids in the group (Angelene Superable, Ressa Gallardo, DJ Delrosario) and one filAm (Christian Madison).

This was just one of the many awesome performances of Dawson High School's ENCORE choir.

[agerod4nhoj1969]

WOW! GREAT RENDITION. PRONUNCIATION IS VERY CLEAR ESPECIALLY THE LETTER "T" WHICH IS VERY NATIVE. SOUNDS VERY GOOD. THANK YOU FOR SINGING THE SONG. BRAVO! CONGRATULATIONS TO YOUR CONDUCTOR. AND TO ALL OF YOU WHO PERFORMED IT VERY WELL.

[anonymous77898]

OMG Awesome!

[Nickknockerz]

nice singing... nice accent

[JAnthony37]

Lots of nuanced dynamics- very effective with this song. Great diction too. Nicely done. 

[6468765]

your choir sounds super awesome... it sounds like you're actually from Visayas. Ms. Roxan Silva, mabuhay po kayo! 

[engrish2006]

@engrish2006 Not to mention it spares the rare chance of saying the wrong word that could put the whole song out of context. And by the way, I've heard many Filipino choirs sing English songs with little to no accent. I don't know what you've been listening to, but...

[engrish2006]

@magsasaka1960 But don't you agree that correct pronunciation of foreign words creates authenticity? As a native Filpino, I really appreciate choirs who take the effort to pronounce the words of our languages correctly. Heck, my chamber choir sang "Alouette" at a music festival, and the adjudicator, during feedback, corrected minor issues in our French. Correct pronunciation eloquently tells the song's story to the native speaker who may be listening; it's hardly trivial.

[magsasaka1960]

@agerod4nhoj1969 What impressed me more than their pronunciation of blunt or hard "T" was how well and clearly they pronounced "NG" or "NANG". Next to "MGA", every native English speaker I've met finds "ng" or "nang" most difficult to pronounce.

[magsasaka1960]

@engrish2006 Choirs in the Philippines will still have difficulty at pronouncing Fs, Vs, THs and soft Ts even if they had an American and/or English director. Let us not minimize this outstanding rendition of a Philippine song by a non-Philippine group by pointing out trivial details of the performance.

[magsasaka1960]

@ryleryleryle What if they told us to enunciate our Fs, Vs, and THs and soften our Ts when we sing English songs? PUH-LEAAAZE... This group does a much better job at pronouncing/singing Philippine words than we do at theirs.

[magsasaka1960]

@tarubski99 Ay, naku...ako'y buwisit na buwisit d'in d'un sa batang ngawa nang ngawa. The parent(s) of that child was very inconsiderate. Dapat man lamang ay inilabas ang batang hindi yata namamaos sa pagngawa!!!